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Posted on 17th January 2017
CES (Catholic Education Service) Census 2017
The CES Census 2017 is this Thursday (19th January) - the same date as the Spring Census for the DfE. The Catholic Education Service has many resources to support schools with this return includi...
Posted on 16th January 2017
Academies Accounts Return
Academies having submitted their Annual Report and Accounts to the EFA by the 31 December 2016, will be aware that they must now submit their Academies Accounts Return by 31 January 2017. The EFA ha...
Posted on 13th January 2017
Gender pay gap reporting webinar
Gender pay gap reporting webinar We uncovered a useful webinar on gender pay gap reporting by XpertHR which might be of interest to a number of academies and independent schools. The aim of the webi...
Posted on 13th January 2017
New Update and Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all of our customers and best wishes for 2017! The latest SBS Online update contains improvements to Staff Contracts, National Insurance calculations, multi-school KPIs, the default...
Posted on 12th January 2017
Tidy up time
Although Census time allows schools to update a lot of information held in SIMS, the same old data issues often persist (contacts not showing correctly, no little houses, names in upper and lower ca...
Posted on 10th January 2017
Ransomware latest - Schools targetted by fraudulent calls
According to the police, "fraudsters are posing as government officials in order to trick people into installing ransomware which encrypts files on victims’ computers." Further to our previous adv...
Posted on 9th January 2017
Cost pressures for schools and new Funding Formula
In the last few days of the Autumn term two key announcements were made on school funding. The first was a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) on how prepared schools and academies were in re...
Posted on 6th January 2017
Changes to statutory maternity and sick pay rates in 2017
Statutory maternity and sick pay rates for 2017/18 The government has recently announced the changes to statutory maternity and sick pay rates in 2017. This includes adoption, paternity and shared p...
Posted on 3rd January 2017
Spring Census - Fileset 502
A new Fileset (502) has been made available by Capita for the Spring Census. It contains updates to both the summary report and validation files. Downloading and Applying a Fileset Please check tha...
Posted on 19th December 2016
Latest advice for schools on ransomware
Ransomware is an aggressive form of computer virus that targets your server, encrypts files and then demands a ransom for their release. The technology driving ransomware - such as the CryptoLocker ...
Posted on 15th December 2016
Consolidated Exams patch available
Capita have now released a consolidated exams patch (22509) which adds the newly identified discount codes TA1, TA2 and TA3 as well as correcting JCQ Gradeset 43 and fixing basedata issues previous...
Posted on 14th December 2016
Workplace issues this Christmas
Workplace issues this Christmas With Christmas just round the corner employers need to prepare for some familiar workplace issues, whether its unauthorised absence over the Christmas period or bad ...